"Adobe has been dropping preview links to its upcoming version of Photoshop CS6 for months now, even hyping it up with a Rainn Wilson cameo at MAX 2011. Photoshop CS6 marks one of the app's most drastic visual changes, with a darker visual redesign and streamlined toolbars, and it has all sorts of changes to cursors, filters, video editing, and more in tow. We got some quick hands on time with the app, so read on for our take on Adobe's next-gen installation of Photoshop."

Also, the example used is Netscape. One thing mentioned is that the old codebase was really bad and so they definitely needed to rewrite it.

So rewriting wasn't the problem. The problem was that they suddenly decided to rewrite and abandon the old codebase. Instead they should have started working on a rewrite and dropped the old codebase only when the new codebase was done.

And continuing with the same example, do you think that Netscape's successor Mozilla would have been successful if someone hadn't redone the entire interface, essentially thought through what the users wanted and made a fresh start, and created Firefox?

And continuing with the same example, do you think that Netscape's successor Mozilla would have been successful if someone hadn't redone the entire interface, essentially thought through what the users wanted and made a fresh start, and created Firefox?